Author: Baghdasarian Karlen

WHY ARE 100 PEOPLE STARVING THEMSELVES FOR FOUR DAYS?

12:30 21 April 2015

Lara Akinnawo

People waving Armenian flags at an earlier march in London on Saturday
April 18 [Photograph by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian]

This afternoon, 100 people will go on hunger strike on Downing Street
to commemorate the Armenian genocide.

Children and teenagers at an earlier march in London on Saturday
April 18 [Photograph by Cevanne Horrocks-Hopayian]

The hunger strike is also a vigil for the million or more people who
were killed in the Armenian genocide 100 years ago – and a protest
against Turkey’s continued insistence that the deaths never happened.

In 1915, Ottoman forces in Turkey began systematically slaughtering
the Armenian Christian minority.

Turkey has never accepted that the murder of half of the Armenian
population was genocide.

Now, a century later, Turkey has moved the annual commemorations
of the battle of Gallipoli – which are usually held on March 17 and
April 25 – to April 24, which clashes with the annual commemoration
of the Armenian genocide.

Vigil organiser Bernard Nazarin believes that this change is
deliberate, and is condemning the UK’s decision to take part in the
Turkish celebrations:

“We believe the British government should know better. Other European
leaders are ignoring the Turkish invitation.”

Mr Nazarian, who helped to organise the vigil and hunger strike said
it is ‘outrageously insensitive’ that “the British Government is
sending Prince Charles to Istanbul without question”.

World leaders who have rejected Turkey’s invitation include Russia’s
President, French President Hollande of France, and the Pope. Instead
they are commemorating the centenary of the genocide in Armenia’s
capital today.

The ethnic cleansing of between one million and a million and a half
Armenian people by Turkish forces in WWI is often compared to the
Jewish Holocaust in WWII, and Mr Nazarian said the two tragedies stir
up similar emotions.

“When people speak about it there is nothing but pain and sorrow. I
as a human being and Armenian feel the pain as I do for the Jewish
Holocaust in Germany – but at least the perpetrators of that Holocaust
have been punished.”

‘I know many people, close relatives who were affected. My uncle’s
family escaped from Van in the east of Turkey,’ Mr Nazarian said.

The vigil and hunger strike is taking place today opposite 10 Downing
Street until 4pm on Saturday April 25. There will also be a vigil
outside the Turkish Embassy on Friday April 24 from 1pm to 7pm.

From: Baghdasarian

MESSE POUR LE CENTENAIRE DU GENOCIDE DES ARMENIENS : LE PAPE RECOIT LE REVERBERE DE LA MEMOIRE REFUSE JUSQU’A CE JOUR PAR LA SUISSE ET PAR GENEVE

VATICAN

A l’issue de la messe historique pour le centenaire du genocide des
Armeniens presidee par le Pape Francois ce dimanche 12 avril 2015 dans
la basilique Saint-Pierre de Rome, le Souverain pontife a recu des
mains de Vahe Gabrache, President de la Fondation Alliance armenienne,
un Reverbère de la memoire, ce meme Reverbère dont Genève et les
autorites federales ont refuse l’erection dans le parc de l’Ariana.

Il appartient maintenant a Genève de montrer sa fidelite a sa tradition
humanitaire et son attachement aux droits humains en autorisant sans
delai la construction de ce monument avant la fin du centenaire du
Genocide des Armeniens.

Lors de cette messe historique dediee au centenaire du genocide des
Armeniens, le Pape a reconnu le genocide armenien en ces termes
: >. Malgre les pressions des autorites turques pour
la messe n’ait pas lieu, elle a non seulement eu lieu, mais elle a
ete retransmise en direct en Eurovision et en presence du President
armenien Serge Sarkissian. A la fin de la messe, le Catholicos de
tous les Armeniens Karekin II et le Catholicos de Cilicie Aram I ont
eu l’opportunite de prendre la parole. C’est egalement a ce moment
que le Pape Francois a recu le Reverbère de la memoire des mains du
President de la Fondation Alliance armenienne, M. Vahe Gabrache.

Vahe Gabrache, President de la Fondation Alliance armenienne a
declare a cette occasion :
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THOUSANDS MARCH DOWNTOWN TO MARK 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

CP24, Ontario, Canada
April 19 2015

Joshua Freeman, CP24.com
Published Sunday, April 19, 2015 7:08PM EDT

Thousands of people took part in a commemoration ceremony at Queen’s
Park Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

The march started at Queen’s park and ended with a service at the
Metropolitan United Church led by Cardinal Thomas Collins.

The Queen’s Park rally was attended by a number of officials from
all levels of government, including Premier Kathleen Wynne, Defence
Minister Jason Kenney and Mayor John Tory.

“This anniversary is a powerful reminder of the need to remain vigilant
in upholding the dignity and equality of each and every one of us as
human beings,” Wynne said. “It reminds us that we must continue to
stand up against hatred. We must continue to work together to ensure
that the atrocities of the past are never repeated. ”

Tory struck a similar note in his remarks, telling the crowd that
the milestone is an opportunity to reflect on the past and to make
sure that it is never repeated.

“We, your fellow citizens here in Toronto – it’s been spoken about
on behalf of all of the rest of Canada as well – have not forgotten
the genocide and the victims of this tragedy,” Tory said.

As many as 1.5 million Armenians are believed to have been slaughtered
at the hands of Ottoman forces starting in 1915.

Canada officially recognized the massacre as a genocide in 2004.

However its recognition has been a contentious issue around the world
because the Turkish government has staunchly refused to recognize
the events as genocide.

Canadian-Armenian filmmaker Atom Egoyan also spoke at the rally and
said he’s heartened to see so much public support for the Armenian
community and recognition of its history, despite the Turkish
government’s opposition.

“It was a historic moment, I’m just so thrilled” Egoyan told CP24
after the rally. “Since I came to Toronto 33 years ago I’ve been
dreaming of this moment and it’s just so great.”

He said the genocide is a “textbook case of what happens when justice
is not adhered to” and that its lessons ring true for all cultures.

“Today’s message is really about solidarity with all victims of
genocide, for all races and cultures that have actually experienced
this type of ethnic hatred and violence,” Egoyan said.

He said he was pleased to see a variety of cultural groups coming
out to mark the anniversary.

“In our case in terms of the Armenians, it’s also about dealing with
this question of denial, denial of the perpetrator,” he said. “We
are really dealing with a situation where 100 years later the Turkish
state is still actively denying.”

Police said approximately 5,000 people attended the march.

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ARMENIAN GENOCIDE ISSUE ENTERS NEW STAGE – SERGEY MINASYAN

13:07 * 20.04.15

Political scientist Sergey Minasyan believes that the issue of the
Armenian Genocide has entered a new stage.

Events marking the Armenian Genocide centennial will continue
throughout the year, but hardly anyone doubts that the process has
reached its logical aim.

“Armenia and the Armenian Diaspora will be grateful to the nations and
organizations that will, at different levels, continue recognizing the
Armenian Genocide. However, Turkey’s admission of the Armenian Genocide
will be the most important matter for us after 2015,” Mr Minasyan said.

The Armenia will continue doing its best as before and this is an
instance of quantity being transformed into quality, and the European
Parliament’s latest resolution proves that the Armenian Genocide has
long since stopped being problem for Armenians and Turks alone.

As regards Turkey’s statements, Mr Minasyan said:

“By showing such a reaction, Turkey’s public and political circles
prove historical reality.”

According to him, a US delegation will attend events marking the
Armenian Genocide on April 24, which will come as a complete surprise
for Turkey.

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ROBERT FISK: TO CONTINUE TO DENY THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IS CLOSE TO A CRIMINAL LIE

13:01, 20 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

Robert Fisk
The Independent

At seven o’clock on Thursday evening, a group of very brave men
and women will gather in Taksim Square, in the centre of Istanbul,
to stage an unprecedented and moving commemoration. The men and
women will be both Turkish and Armenian, and they will be gathering
together to remember the 1.5 million Christian Armenian men, women and
children slaughtered by the Ottoman Turks in the 1915 genocide. That
Armenian Holocaust – the direct precursor of the Jewish Holocaust –
began 100 years ago this Thursday, only half a mile from Taksim,
when the government of the time rounded up hundreds of Armenian
intellectuals and writers from their homes and prepared them for
death and the annihilation of their people.

The Pope has already annoyed the Turks by calling this wicked act –
the most terrible massacre of the First World War – a genocide, which
it was: the deliberate and planned attempt to liquidate a race of
people. The Turkish government – but, thank God, not all the Turkish
people – have maintained their petulant and childish denial of this
fact of history on the grounds that the Armenians were not killed
according to a plan (the old “chaos of war” nonsense), and that the
word “genocide” was anyway coined only after the Second World War and
thus cannot apply to them. On that basis, the First World War wasn’t
the First World War because it wasn’t called the First World War at
the time!

Two thoughts come to mind, then, on this centenary of the butchery,
mass rape and child killing of 1915. The first is that for a powerful
government of a strong – and courageous – European and Nato nation
such as Turkey to continue to deny the truth of this mass human
cruelty is close to a criminal lie. More than 100,000 Turks have
discovered that they have Armenian grandmothers or great-grandmothers –
the very women kidnapped, enslaved, raped or converted on the death
marches from Anatolia into the northern Syrian desert – and Turkish
historians themselves (alas, not enough of them) are now producing
the most detailed documentary evidence of the sinister Talat Pasha’s
extermination orders issued from what was then Constantinople.

Yet anyone who opposes the government’s denial of genocide is still
vilified. For almost a quarter of a century, I have been receiving
mail from Turks about my own writing on the genocide. It started
when I dug the bones and skulls of massacred Armenians out of the
Syrian desert with my own hands in 1992. A few correspondents wanted
to express their support. Most letters were little short of pernicious.

And I rather fear that the continued denial by the Turkish government
could be as dangerous to Turkey as it is outrageous for the Armenian
descendants of the dead. I remember an elderly Armenian lady describing
to me how she saw Turkish militiamen piling living babies on top of
each other and setting fire to them. Her mother told her that their
cries were the sound of their souls going up to heaven.

Isn’t this – and the enslavement of women – exactly what Isis is
perpetrating against its ethnic enemies just across the Turkish border
today? Denial is fraught with peril.

And let’s ask ourselves what would happen if the present German
government was to claim that any demand to recognise the “events” of
1939-1945 – in which six million Jews were murdered – as a genocide
was “Jewish propaganda” and “mutilating history and law”. Yet that
was pretty much what the Turkish government said when the EU last
week asked it to recognise the Armenian genocide. The EU, the foreign
ministry said in Ankara, had succumbed to “Armenian propaganda” about
the “events” of 1915, and was “mutilating history and law”. If Germany
had adopted such unforgivable words about the Jewish Holocaust, you
would not have been able to see through the Berlin exhaust fumes as
the world’s ambassadors headed for the airport.

Yet the very day after the brave little commemoration scheduled
for Taksim Square this week, the great and the good of the Western
world will be gathering with Turkish leaders a few miles to the
west of Istanbul to honour the dead of Gallipoli, Mustafa Kemal’s
extraordinary – and brilliant – 1915 victory over the Allies in the
First World War. How many of them will remember that among the Turkish
heroes fighting for Turkey at Gallipoli was a certain Armenian Captain
Torossian – whose own sister would soon die in the genocide?

I plan to report on the commemoration next week in the company of
Turkish friends. But the second thought that comes to mind – and
Armenian friends must forgive me – is that I’m not terribly interested
in what the Armenians say and do on this 100th anniversary. I want
to know what they plan to do on the day after the day of the 100th
anniversary. The Armenian survivors – those who could remember – are
now all dead. In about 30 years, Jews around the world will suffer
the same deep sadness as their own last survivors disappear from the
world of living testimony. But the dead live on, especially when their
victimhood is denied – a curse that forces them to die again and again.

Armenians must surely now compile a list of the brave Turks who
saved their lives during their people’s persecution. There is at
least one provincial governor, and individual named Turkish soldiers
and policemen, who risked their own lives to save Armenians at
this gruesome moment in Turkish history. Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
Turkey’s triumphalist prime minister, has spoken of his sorrow
for the Armenians, while continuing to deny the genocide. Would he
dare to refuse to sign an Armenian genocide book of commemoration
listing the brave Turks who tried to save their nation’s honour at
its darkest hour?

I’ve been banging on about this idea to Armenians for years. I said
the same to Armenians in Detroit last week. Honour the good Turks.

Alas, everyone claps. And does nothing.

From: Baghdasarian

TURKISH EMBASSY IN MEXICO CENSORS FILM FESTIVAL ON ARMENIAN GENOCIDE

Monday, April 20th, 2015

An exhibit on the Armenian Genocide in Mexico City’s Memory and
Tolerance Museum. (Photo: Agencia Prensa Armenia)

MEXICO CITY (Agencia Prensa Armenia)–The Turkish Embassy in Mexico
managed to suspend a film festival at the Museo Nacional de las
Culturas in Mexico City through strong pressures on various state
and government authorities.

The film festival was going to feature movies like “Grandma’s Tattoos,”
“The Lark Farm,” “The Cut,” “Screamers,” and “Ararat,” among others.

“After one hundred years of the Armenian Genocide, they once again
seek to silence the word. The current Turkish government tries by all
means to prevent the use of the word genocide,” said Professor Carlos
Antaramian at the opening of an exhibition, “Armenia, an open wound,”
held in the Memory and Tolerance Museum.

The Mexican Foreign Ministry tried to prevent the use of the word
“genocide” in other activities as well, such as a concert dedicated to
the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Bellas Artes, after pressure
from Turkish diplomats.

“The Mexican government not only does not recognize the Armenian
Genocide, but in recent days a very powerful hand inside the government
has shown a particular interest in silencing the commemoration of the
Genocide which was organized by the Armenian community in Mexico. The
word remains muted in this 2015,” said Antaramian.

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TURKEY FAILED IN THE ATTEMPT TO LEAVE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EVENTS IN THE SHADOW: GIRO MANOYAN

16:35, 20 Apr 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan

“The tsunami of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide Turkey
was afraid of is already a fact,” Head of the Armenian Revolutionary
Federation Bureau’s Hay Dat and Political Affairs Office told reporters
in Yerevan today.

Manoyan attached importance to the recent developments, especially
the Mass at the Vatican and the subsequent reactions.

Manoyan said “Turkey has failed in its attempt to leave the Armenian
Genocide centennial events in a shadow by scheduling the Gallipoli
commemorations for April 24.

“With this step Turkey attracted greater attention to our events.

“Turkey’s policy of denial has failed,” he said.

The tsunami will continue as a great number of historians, genocide
scholars and politicians from different countries of the world gather
in Yerevan on April 24.

Giro Manoyan does not exclude escalation at the Armenian-Azerbaijani
border in the coming days.

“Azerbaijan is also dissatisfied with the EU Resolution, Pope’s
statement and may express its discontent by creating tension at the
frontline,” he said.

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EU, PACE AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS CONDEMN VERDICT AGAINST AZERBAIJANI HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER

17:28 20/04/2015 >> LAW

The European Union calls on Azerbaijan to abide by its international
commitments and to establish greater trust in the independence and
professionalism of its judicial system, as well as to ensure that
Rasul Jafarov is given the opportunity to appeal the verdict in a
fair and unbiased process, the statement, published on EU official
website, reads.

“The six and a half year custodial sentence imposed by an Azerbaijan
court on Mr Rasul Jafarov, a well-known human rights defender
and respected partner of international donors, appears harsh and
disproportionate to the alleged offences on which it is based.

Procedural shortcomings, witnessed by international monitors during
the trial of Mr Jafarov, raise concerns about due legal processes,”
the EU says.

The co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of
Europe (PACE) for the monitoring of Azerbaijan, Pedro Agramunt and
Tadeusz Iwinski, have also released a statement noting that such a long
sentence against a human rights defender for charges in connection
to administering an NGO could be perceived as disproportionate. They
also reminded that an application is pending before European Court of
Human Rights against Jafarov’s arrest and pre-trial detention, in which
the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights has intervened
as a third party. The statement is published on PACE website.

The international human rights organization Freedom House also made a
statement condemning the politically motivated imprisonment of Rasul
Jafarov, who was convicted on ludicrous charges. The verdict fits
“a pattern of prosecutions against leading human rights defenders
and investigative journalists, including Leyla Yunus, Intigam
Aliyev, Emin Huseynov and Khadija Ismail, on trumped up charges. The
Azerbaijani authorities seem purposefully oblivious to the irony of
sentencing an activist on counts of financial wrong-doing, given that
President, Ilham Aliyev has accrued great wealth while in power,”
said Susan Corke, director of Eurasia programs of Freedom House,
urging Europe’s leaders not to attend the European Games in Baku,
as a clear condemnation of Azerbaijan’s actions.

The international organization Human Rights Watch has released a video
on its website, featuring prominent activists and journalists detained
in the recent months – the human rights defenders Rasul Jafarov,
Intigam Aliyev, Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif, investigative
journalist Khadija Ismayilova and the director of the Institute for
Reporters’ Freedom and Safety (IRFS) – Emin Huseynov.

“With less than two months to go to the European Games, the spotlight
is increasingly on Azerbaijan’s terrible human rights record and
its political prosecutions of critics. This is a key moment for
Azerbaijan’s partners, including the European Union, to call on
Azerbaijan to release the critics it has thrown behind bars and end
its crackdown,” said Jane Buchanan, associate Europe and Central Asia
director at Human Rights Watch. She added that the political prisoners
and those in exile are fully aware that thousands of athletes, sports
fans, journalists, and others will soon arrive in Baku to celebrate a
major new international event. They are counting on Olympic leaders
and governments to not just come to the Baku party, but to stand up
for what is right, by insisting on freedom for those wrongly accused.

The Sport for Rights coalition of international organizations also
resolutely condemned the sentencing of Rasul Jafarov to 6.5 years’
imprisonment, demanding his immediate release and calling for robust
sanctions against Azerbaijan unless the government takes concrete steps
to halt the crackdown in the country. The statement is published on
the website of the human right organization Index on Censorship.

“This ridiculous sentence is a punishment for Jafarov’s human rights
activism. The authoritarian regime in Baku are scared of the attention
Jafarov would bring during the high profile sport events they are
proudly hosting – the European Games in June this year and the Formula
One Grand Prix in 2016,” said Thomas Hughes, Executive Director of
Article 19. Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg added that the
Baku games should not be used as a means to blind the wider world to
the appalling treatment being meted out to journalists and activists
in Azerbaijan. The international community must unite in condemning
the Azerbaijani government and in calling for the immediate release
of Rasul Jafarov and his compatriots.

As the statement has it, the coalition calls for the EU and its Member
States to impose targeted sanctions – for instance visa ban- against
those members of the regime who systematically abuse fundamental
human rights of citizens of Azerbaijan. At the same time, given
the unprecedented human rights crisis in Azerbaijan, the coalition
calls for the European Olympic Committee to establish a working group
to examine specific cases of right abuses that violates the spirit
and letter of the Olympic Charter and the atmosphere of the first
European Games.

“A robust response from the European Olympic Committee is required,
together with sanctions from the European Union and United States.

This is the only way to bring about the release of Rasul Jafarov
and other political prisoners, including prominent human rights
defenders Leyla Yunus, Emin Huseynov, Anar Mammadli, award-winning
investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova and well-known politician
Ilgar Mammadov,” Platform London representative Emma Hughes said. Maria
Dahle, Executive Director of the Human Rights House Foundation
(HRHF), added that the authorities of Azerbaijan have now come to
an absolute low point of the regressive trend over the past years
and an even lower point will be reached with the expected sentencing
of human rights lawyer Intigam Aliyev the following week. She said
they expect governments, international organisations and corporate
businesses that have relations with the Azerbaijani government to
hold Azerbaijan accountable and react firmly. “Profound actions
and sanctions must be taken as a response to Azerbaijan’s severe
crackdown on independent civil society and human rights defenders –
and to Azerbaijan’s total disrespect of international agreements and
responsibilities,” she stressed.

The British newspaper The Time also covered the verdict of the lawyer
and human rights campaigner Rasul Jafarov. According to the article,
published on the newspaper website, Azerbaijan is cracking down on
domestic dissent before welcoming thousands of athletes and spectators
to the first European Games.

“Rasul Jafarov fell foul of the country’s autocratic government, headed
by President Aliyev. He planned to use the two-week sporting event
to highlight rights abuses in the corruption-plagued nation, which
relies on oil and gas revenues to fund its extravagant international
projects,” the article reads.

In his article about Jafarov’s case, published on the independent
news platform The News Hub, freelance journalist Cameron Kilmister
writes that given Azerbaijan’s media freedom index, it came as no
surprise to learn of Jafarov’s arrest in August, 2014.

“Whether Azerbaijan will cave to international pressure and allow
Jafarov to appeal his sentence is still unclear. Yet the activist has
now become one of the victims that he spent years trying to help,”
the author writes.

Rasul Jafarov, a well-known human rights defender, “Art for Democracy”
campaign organizer, was sentenced to 6.5 years’ imprisonment in
Azerbaijan. The verdict was brought in by the judge Eldar Ismayilov in
the Baku court of grave crimes on April 16. Jafarov is banned taking
up any post for three years after his release.

After the verdict was handed down, Jafarov said he considered it to be
trumped up and politically motivated. The court did not prove any of
the allegations brought against the human rights defender. All of the
prosecution witnesses testified in favor of the human rights defender,
and the process actually proved his complete innocence.

Related:

Azerbaijani human rights defender Rasul Jafarov sentenced to 6.5
years’ imprisonment

International community sharply condemns verdict against Azerbaijani
human rights defender Rasul Jafarov

Department of State responds to Azerbaijani media attacks: Attempting
to blame US is just distraction from their own problems

International human rights organizations condemn arrest of Azerbaijani
human rights defender Rasul Jafarov

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CAVUSOGLU ADMITS THAT THE ARMENIAN DIASPORA AND THE ARMENIANS’ SUPPORTERS ARE EXTREMELY ACTIVE IN THE U.S.

15:39, 20 April, 2015

YEREVAN, 20 APRIL, ARMENPRESS. Minister of Foreign Affairs of Turkey
Mevlut CavuÃ…~_oglu, who is currently in the U.S. “to prevent” U.S.

President Barack Obama’s possible recognition of the Armenian Genocide,
has admitted that the Armenian Diaspora and the Armenians’ supporters
are extremely active in the U.S.

According to “Armenpress”, this is what Turkey’s pro-government Sabah
newspaper reports, mentioning that CavuÃ…~_oglu made an announcement
about this during a meeting at the Turkish American Culture and
Civilization Center to open in Maryland soon.

In his speech, CavuÃ…~_oglu declared that the Armenian community
of America was leading “an advocacy campaign against the Turks and
Muslims” living in the U.S.

CavuÃ…~_oglu invited the Muslim citizens of the United States of America
to participate in the Peace and Solidarity Walk, which is organized
by Turkish-American civic groups and will be held on April 24th.

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ONE OF OFFICIALS GUILTY OF YEZIDI GENOCIDE IN IRAQ ARRIVES IN ARMENIA

13:44 | April 20,2015 | Politics

Representatives of the Yezidi community in Armenia have issued a
statement saying Sheikh Shamo (pictured) has no right to participate
in the opening of a monument dedicated to the Yezidi genocide in the
Ottoman Empire.

“Sheikh Shamo, one of the people guilty of the genocide of the Yezidi
community in Iraq by the ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq), has arrived
in Armenia.

Sadly, some Yezidis in Armenia welcomed him and even invited him
to attend the solemn opening of a monument dedicated to the Yezidi
genocide in the Ottoman Empire to be unveiled on April 21. Sheikh
Shamo’s participation in the opening of the monument, which is very
valuable for the local Yezidis, will downplay the importance of
the event.

Representatives of non-governmental organizations representing
the interests of the Yezidis in Armenia condemn Sheikh Shamo’s
participation in the event and announce that a person, guilty of the
Yezidi genocide in Iraq, who is against the sovereignty of Shingal and
our flag, has no right to speak on behalf of the Yezidis. We urge the
authorities not to accept this impostor,” reads the statement issued
by the Yezidi National Union MGO, “Sinjar” Yezidi National Union NGO,
“Shams” NGO and “Yezidi National Committee” NGO.

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